by David Schreiner

Enter now to win Cubs tickets!!!

Here is a chance to win a set of four tickets to see the World Champion Chicago Cubs in a game this upcoming season.

Between now and Monday, January 23rd at 5:00 PM I will be accepting answers posted online to this question:

What is one thing people don’t know about KSB Hospital?

This can be a statistic from your department, a service offered to our customers, a resource that might be available… anything at all that you are creative enough to think of. You don’t have to be a KSB employee to win.

On Tuesday, January 24th one random name will be drawn from everyone that submits an idea and that person will win the tickets. Simply leave a reply below to be entered.

KSB has numerous committees such as the Patient Experience Committee, which is dedicated to improving patient well-being, and an Employee Wellness Committee to provide health improvement opportunities for our staff

It’s amazing to me how many people in Dixon and the surrounding area still don’t know that KSB has a family medicine residency program. They are a great group of residents and will make great family medicine physicians.

KSB Oregon clinic offers Sinissippi support on every Monday.. with this Amy is able to help patients with many areas of life such as: skills development, connections to community resources, a referral for professional counseling, assistance with employment search and readiness, arranging transportation for medical needs, assistance finding housing, and emotional regulation/ coping support. If Amy’s services are needed on a day other then Monday we send a referral to her and she calls them on Monday to see them or arrange anything she can for patient, if Amy is here the day the patients is, she will see them right after the pt’s office visit if she and pt are able.. it is very useful and a great addition to our KSB Oregon clinic!
Skyler McCoy

Part of being happy and healthy isn’t just physical health, but also spiritual and emotional health. KSB not only offers a variety and medical services, but also provides counseling and sessions with a psychiatrist through our Behavioral Healthcare Outpatient services. A new year can mean a healthy and whole, new year.

KSB Speech Therapy offers speech, language, swallowing, feeding, voice, fluency, and cognitive evaluation and therapy for individuals birth to adult. We often perform tests in conjunction with physicians, such as radiologists and ENTs. We also work closely with dietary and occupational therapy. Our scope of practice is much broader than our title suggests! (:

KSB will soon be debuting a new outpatient wound care clinic which will add another much needed service to our community. The clinic will provide services by a wound certified nurse and our top notch physicians.

What is one thing people don’t know about KSB Hospital? Is that my brothers daughter mila was born during the World Series and my brother was going crazy watching the cubs win and watch his beautiful daughter be born !! Happy aunt!thanks to all those nice nurses that made my brothers stay a happy ending !i don’t want the tickets for my self but I would love to give my tickets to die hard fan that is my brother jerry !!

KSB has numerous committees such as the Patient Experience Committee which is dedicated to the patients well-being, and the Employee Wellness Committee that provides health improvement opportunities for our staff!

The Patient Access department of KSB consists of ’36’ employees. We are the smiling faces and voices you see and hear; upon arriving for registration, scheduling your appointments and testing, certifying insurance and directing your calls at our switchboard.

Since opening our doors last June, our pharmacist-managed Anticoagulation Clinic has had over 100 patients referred and has conducted over 600 patient visits. Our clinic pharmacists are dedicated to excellence in patient care and safety!

Great dietary department. They have provided the Post House Community Center with nutritious meals for our congregate diners on days when our regular supplier has not been able to reach us due to weather. Always with a smile.

The KSB rehab services has three very unique machines I wanted to highlight. We have a work simulator called the BTE which helps our industrial rehab client return to work faster and helps to simulate specific job duties required in that transition. Secondly, the AlterG is a unique treadmill allowing the therapist to reduce the body weight of the client which allow for decreased pain while walking or transitions the client to walking earlier in his/her rehab. It also has applications for runners to train while nursing injuries. Lastly, the NeuroCom balance center help treat and diagnose client with reduce balance to streamline treatment to the balance system that is compromised. There are also sporting applications as well.

The Sleep Lab at KSB is open during the day for testing also, and will accommodate nightshift workers. So patients can test during normal sleeping hours. The staff in the Sleep Lab loves to see new faces :)!

KSB rehab services include aquatic therapy at the YMCA once a week. Aquatic therapy has a number of benefits including speeding the recovery process, boosting muscle performance, and decreasing both acute and chronic pain.

KSB Hospital laboratory is open to outpatients on Saturdays and Sundays, any time of the day/night. Instead of registering on the first floor in Outpatient Services, the patient will register in ED and the phlebotomist will come to you!

That our employees go above and beyond each day to make sure the patient is always given exceptional care. I believe KSB employees are caring and chosen for their exceptional skills and caring ways. I personally know this working daily for an phenomenal physician myself, and seeing the caring and truly spirited ways our staff interacts with the patients. I am proud to be a part of such an amazing team!

Employees not only help people at KSB. They also volunteer hours and hours of time to Alzheimer’s, Perunia festival, cancer, historic Dixon theater,, Ms,and other countless organizations. They are to be commended for helping all these organizations.

When a pt schedules a test, they don’t know how many departments and people it takes. People behind the scene, like ins precerters, medical records, techs, radiologists, schedulers, techs, nurses, drs, register clerks, lab techs. So many people who have to work together.

That there is a book about how KSB began, Read RELENTLESS, ENVIOUS DEATH is a double biography telling of Katherine’s relatives (the Campbell Shaws) and Katherine’s battle with tuberculosis. The book explains how their direct shared experience with one of the most feared diseases of their day and their love for each other led them to create the lasting gift of KSB Hospital as a legacy to Katherine and to Solomon’s parents.

Patients of KSB are offered a 10% discount if they pay their balance in full within 30 days after receiving their first statement. KSB Employees are also offered payroll deduct so their monthly payments are directly taken out of their paycheck.

KSB has an ambulance bay like no other hospital around. Patients are very lucky that they’re not being unloaded out of an ambulance in the extreme weather. On behalf of all the paramedics and EMTs, I would say we are even spoiled to have a nice heated area to unload the patient.